Gay Marriage
5/23 1:10 PM
Answering the Question, Again Children matter in a definition of marriage.
Impromptus
5/23 12:00 AM
Oslo Journal, Part VI Jay Nordlinger on a musician from Cameroon, a Nobelist from Peru, a messenger from North Korea, and more.
The Benghazi Scandal
5/23 12:00 AM
Black Swans and Benghazi Not all theories are conspiracy theories.
The Obama Scandals
5/21 4:00 AM
The Pinocchio Administration If the voters had known the truth . . .
- Rich Lowry: The mystery night in Libya. Politico
- James Taranto: Why did Lois Lerner take the Fifth? Perhaps to protect herself from Obama. Wall Street Journal More Links (10)
- Eliana Johnson: Lois Lerner at the FEC
- Jillian Kay Melchior: The Enviro-Fix Is In
- Fred Thompson: A Person of Privilege?
- Jonathan Strong: Reality Check for Rubio
- The Editors: Targeting Apple
- Daniel Foster: Firing Lois Lerner
- John Fund: The Real Voter Suppression of 2012
- Avik Roy: The Internal Speech Service
- Jay Nordlinger: Oslo Journal, Part VI
- Clifford D. May: Black Swans, Icebergs, and Benghazi
- Deroy Murdock: The Illegal-Alien Jailbreak
- Michael Barone: Band-Aid Health Insurance
- Andrew Stiles: An Audit, Not an Investigation
- Ian Tuttle: It Didn’t End
- Victor Davis Hanson: Big Government’s Abuses of Power
- Andrew C. McCarthy: No Special Counsel for the IRS Scandal
- Betsy Woodruff: Snowe’s Blizzard of Clichés
- Jillian Kay Melchior: The EPA’s Conservative Problem
- James V. DeLong: A Cardboard Cutout of a Caucus
- Daniel Foster: Rand Paul Heads to New Hampshire
The Obama Scandals
5/23 4:47 PM
Source: Lerner Placed on Leave Tells staff administrative leave starts today.
Real Voter Suppression Look to the IRS, not voter ID.
A Person of Privilege? Lois Lerner, too clever by half.
Abuses of Power Are conspiracists paranoid or prescient?
Firing Lois Lerner Just about impossible.
A Fifth of Obama Lois Lerner does the sleazy thing.
The Internal Speech Service Infringing the First Amendment.
Auditing Adoptive Families A deluge of IRS paperwork stalled tax credits.
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Movie Preview: Epic
Epic, the latest 3D computer-animated film from the creators of Ice Age, opens in theaters for the Memorial Day weekend. Here’s a look.
Epic is based on the children’s book The Leaf Men and the Brave Good Bugs by William Joyce. (Another Joyce book, The Guardians, was made into a film last year.)
Epic tells the story of a teenage girl who is transported to a magical forest kingdom inhabited by a race of tiny beings called Leafmen. There she joins a battle between the forces of good and evil.
Mary Katherine (voiced by Amanda Seyfried), or “M.K.,” is a teenage girl visiting her estranged father, Professor Bomba.
Professor Bomba (Jason Sudeikis) is a scientist who has long studied artifacts that he thinks belong to a race of tiny forest warriors.
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The Battle of Teutoburg Forest
Re-enactors gathered in the Kalkriese Museum and Park in Bramsche-Kalkriese, Germany, recently to commemorate the Battle of Teutoburg Forest. Dressed in intricately detailed Roman armor, they paraded, jousted, dueled, and put on history lessons for some modern-day onlookers.
The Battle of Teutoburg Forest — called the Varusschlacht in Germany — took place in 9 A.D., and represented a major defeat for the Roman legions led by Publius Quinctilius Varus. Some 20,000 Roman soldiers were killed in the battle by Germanic tribal warriors led by Arminius.
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IRS Protests
Tea-party activists and supporters held rallies at federal buildings across the country on May 21 to protest revelations that the Internal Revenue Service had targeted conservative political groups. Here’s a look. Pictured, a flag waves at a rally in Springfield, Pa.
Many of these images were snapped by participants and distributed via Twitter. Pictured, the rally in Albuquerque, N.M.
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World Photography Organization Awards
The annual Sony World Photography Organization Awards honor the best still image work in a range of categories, representing amateur and professional photographers. Here’s a look at the winners in the lifestyle category. This year’s top honors went to Italian photographer Alice Caputo for her series “Summer Family.”
(Alice Caputo)
THIRD PLACE: Italian photographer Fausto Podavini produced these intimate portraits of domestic life.
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Sanja Matsuri Festival
The annual Sanja Matsuri festival in Tokyo culminated on May 19 with a parade through the city’s Asakusa district. On the festival’s final day, celebrants in traditional dress carry three portable shrines -- called mikoshi -- through the streets.
Held each year over the third full weekend in May, Sanja Matsuri is one of the largest Shinto festivals in Tokyo, and honors the three founders of the Sensoji Temple, who are enshrined as Shinto gods in the Asakusa Shrine.
Around 100 smaller mikoshi carrying symbols of Shinto gods (kami) are paraded through the streets during the festival to bring good fortune to local businesses and residents.
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Oklahoma Tornado
A massive tornado cut a swath of destruction near Oklahoma City on May 20, devastating hundreds of structures and causing numerous deaths. More than 140 were reported hospitalized.
The tornado was estimated to be two miles wide at one point.
A number of schools were in the path of the storm. Pictured, police officers in the city of Moore, south of Oklahoma City, search through the rubble of the Plaza Towers Elementary School, where some 75 students and staff were reported to have taken shelter as the storm struck.
Rescue workers tend to the injured found in the damaged hospital buildings. Fifteen people were reported trapped in the facility after the storm.
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Photoshopping POTUS
President Obama raised some eyebrows when he had a United States Marine hold an umbrella for him during a Rose Garden press conference on May 16. Some found the move disrespectful to the Marines. Here's how the Photoshop corps reacted, not the first time the presidential umbrella has come in for mockery.
SCANDALPALOOZA: May found the Obama administration dealing with fallout from the Benghazi attacks, revelations of IRS misconduct, stolen AP phone logs, and more. The president's spinning and intransigence have also reignited comparisons to Richard Nixon.
DRONES: Rand Paul couldn't stop talking about them in his March filibuster, and Barack Obama couldn't stop using them. From the left and the right, the Internet took POTUS to task over his remote-control warfare.
POTUS ON THE LINKS: The White House kept the press corps cameras far away from President Obama's golf vacation with Tiger Woods in February. But Internet commentators have been firing up Photoshop to mock the president's golf game since his first term.
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Cannes Film Festival Red Carpet
The annual Cannes Film Festival draws filmmakers and stars from around the world for more than a week of glamorous premieres and ritzy parties. This year's festival runs May 15-26. Here's a look at some red-carpet fashion highlights so far. Pictured, Petra Nemcova at the premiere of Behind the Candelabra.
Behind the Candelabra Premiere (May 21): Michael Douglas and Matt Damon.
Inside Llewyn Davis Premiere (May 19): Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman hold hands atop the red carpet on the Cannes Croisette.
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